Witch Movement (1)

Inger saw the news of the Fourth Prince's return in the newspaper, but what concerned him more was why he came back so late?

In his memory, the Rudolf in the comics came back before Elena became queen.

However, this time it was delayed for more than a month.

Was it because the trip back home after he sent him west was more troublesome than he had imagined?

Inger didn't know where he was sent. The teleportation array didn't have time to determine the coordinates, so it only determined a general direction: the west.

Going further west from Qiunesi Territory and crossing the Daqiusha Mountains is the territory of Liweil.

However, Rudolf's return was not announced in public. He was not sent back as an illegal border crosser, nor was he sent back as an out-of-state prince. He simply returned quietly and with no fanfare to the capital.

However, maybe the distance is not as far as Inger imagined, and it may be on the Daqiusha Mountain.

The monsters of Mount Daqiusha were nothing to Rudolf. So what he was doing during that time is worth pondering.

He couldn't figure it out for a while, so he let it go.

He had read the political pages and found them particularly quiet recently because the explosive news in the past two months was already in the past.

However, only Inger knew that this was the prelude to the coming storm.

According to the main storyline of the comic, not long after Queen Lucia flees, the three princes will begin a battle for the throne.

In the original work, the three are hostile to each other.

Rudolf was determined that both of them must die.

Ola was the same with Rudolf. At that time, she didn't take Alex seriously and treated him as a disposable person. When Alex opposed her political views, she immediately fired him out, forcing Alex to take other measures.

However, the situation has changed this time. Alex is one of the people who is close to Princess Aura. He has not shown too much edge so far and has gained Aura's trust.

As soon as the queen fled, he stayed in the Palace of Ora to help her govern the country. Ora also acquiesced in this behavior. Judging from the fact that she did not kick him out, Alex should have changed his behavior, or Ora accepted his opinion.

Although Alex once said that it didn't matter who was the emperor, he guessed that Aura's position would not change much, as she was the leader of the Eagle Faction.

She believed them, but not completely. If Alex wanted to influence her by persuasion or subtle influence, it would be impossible, as he had already verified in his previous life.

If Alex planned to gather his strength and secretly get rid of Ola to take over himself, it would inevitably lead to bloodshed, and he certainly would not make such a choice.

The more Inger thought about it, the more confused he became about what Alex was really thinking at the moment.

He just wanted to ask him face to face what he was going to do, but Alex refused to meet him.

He silently crumpled up the newspaper and threw it into the trash can.

Jason was shocked watching from the side. It was rare for him to see the Second Young Master so angry.

"I will go to the palace to see him in person!" He had been hesitating for several days, and today he finally couldn't help it.

Jason quickly advised: "It's very chaotic outside now, you'd better not go out."

"Chaos?"

Jason handed him a few unofficial newspapers and magazines, and Inger understood after taking a quick look.

"...Change clothes with me and go to the street."

On Rue du Souppe, one of the main thoroughfares in Nantes.

"If you are even remotely interested in this activity, please take a look at this brochure. It's free!"

There was a girl in a black cake dress handing out a small booklet to passers-by, and she would strike up a conversation with both men and women.

Inger lifted his straw hat, took the booklet, smiled at her and said thank you. The girl smiled back and continued handing out booklets.

On the white cover, the pure black rose is particularly eye-catching. There is a hint of red like hot gold in the center of the rose. I don’t know if it was intentionally added during printing. It looks like a ball of fire burning out an ashes flower in the center.

"Black Rose Declaration"————Mondoris Rouge

【Name, fake.】

Mondolis is the phonetic translation of rose in the language of a small country in mainland China, and Roujian is the phonetic translation of black.

Inger opened it and looked inside.

The video is a combination of text and pictures, and is simple and clear. It lists dozens of clear questions, mainly questioning the injustice in rights facing women in society, and finally calls on the public to submit a motion to the parliament.

And the method is————

"Please come here and sign your precious name!" someone was busy guiding.

"If you have any other suggestions, please fill them out here and we will do our best to feedback them!" Someone said with a loudspeaker at the table.

"The Imperial Constitution clearly states that citizens have the right to participate in politics! Then why! I am asking why! How many women can express their opinions? Aren't women citizens? Such an injustice has been tacitly accepted by everyone for so many years..." Someone made an impassioned speech on the podium in the square.

There was a long banner on the square with quite a few names on it. Most of the people who were interested in it were women, although there were men as well, but in smaller numbers.

With a quick glance, Inger saw some students sitting in the open-air bar, drinking drinks and chatting loudly.

"You saw it too, right? That's amazing!"

"It's too cool to tear up the flag, isn't it?"

"You should have done this a long time ago!"

"Haha, I thought female knights would be better?"

"My cousin is a knight, and her father is also a nobleman, but what good is that? Her father was afraid that something might happen to her, so he arranged for her to join the Rose Knights. It sounds nice, but in fact, they are not allowed to do anything. They can only take photos, wear beautiful female knight costumes, go horseback riding, and attend banquets... Hahahaha, it's so funny!"

"Protect their heads? Look at their arms, they can beat up those male knights of the same level, right?"

"I've always wondered, since they're all knights, why do they put all the female knights together and form a useless Rose Knights?"

"Me too! Actually, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a knight! But I was found to have a greater talent for magic, so I had to go to a wizard academy. However, most of the better wizard academies only accept male wizards! If female wizards want to get in, they have to score several times higher and have to take a physical fitness test! Why do you assume that our physical fitness is lower than theirs? Isn't this just an individual difference? And we are wizards!"

"Did you buy it? The new book of spells co-authored and published by the Pope?"

"Aaaaaah! I bought it! I really like it! It's much easier to learn than before! And I tried it myself! It actually worked!"

"And it's really great that we can do many magics that were previously impossible!"

"Praise the Pope, praise the goddess!"

"But pirated copies have become rampant recently, which is unfortunate. The original version is already cheap enough."

"Ah, some very poor students would buy pirated copies. I took a look out of curiosity and found that some words were printed incorrectly! This can cause great harm!"

"Yeah! The Complete Book of Spells is different from other books!"

"Have you read the biography of Eleanor Levitra?"

"There's a biography so soon? Is she still alive?"

"So it's the first volume, her childhood anecdotes!"

"What a lie! Another biography made up by some publisher?"

“I think it’s pretty credible!”

"You always believe in these things. You like anything that's interesting, right?"

"She is now very famous in various countries. She is the first female crown prince of Levi'er and an adopted daughter. She was also appointed as the leader of the Dragon Knights and an eighth-level knight."

"She even subdued a grown dragon!" a knight came over and added excitedly.

"Hahahahaha yes! I almost forgot!"

Inger listened to the jumping chatter, flipping the book back and forth with his fingers, thinking quietly.

If Aura wants to ascend the throne, the first thing he has to solve is the law of succession.

She had started preparing for this half a year ago.

The result was the witch movement that was about to break out.

The collective strike and march by the Women's Wizarding Academy, the tearing down of the rose flag by the Knights of the Rose, the signing event by the Women's Club, etc. reported in the newspapers were all precursors and components of this movement.

The "Witch Movement" is not a witch-hunting event in Gu Shu's world, nor is it a movement led by female wizards. It is named so because the first people to take to the streets were many female student wizards.

The witch movement began as a joke among the nobility to stigmatize female students who took to the streets.

However, when female knights, noble women, and common women joined the ranks, the empire saw their power.

Internationally, there are three great empires: Levi's, Zalambra's and Chugne's.

Among them, Liweier is at the forefront in the issue of gender rights, which is related to their national customs. They choose the eldest son as the heir, regardless of gender. At the same time, according to family customs, they generally choose the most qualified one. The heir must be the strongest, and the seniority is ranked after the strong and the weak. This orientation is also promoted by the current Emperor Liweier.

The situation is most serious in Zarambula, a country where slavery has not yet been abolished. The status of women is probably even lower than that of slaves, and they can be bought and sold at will.

Qiu Ni is between the two and is closer to Li Weier.

According to the history of this world, the earliest women's suffrage movement began as early as the last century, brought over from the Graytop Kingdoms and Levi's. At that time, with the early parliamentary reforms and mechanical revolution in Chuone, it also promoted some, but not much.

It takes a long time for the ice to freeze three feet thick.

Injustices such as the problem of witches, the treatment of knights, women's political rights, etc. have accumulated in society, but most people subconsciously ignore them, or some people consciously hide these phenomena.

The Elena incident and the success of the November Revolution in Zalambla were like two powerful catalysts. Under the deliberate guidance and promotion of the upper echelons of Churnia, the outbreak was only a matter of time.

Because Ola did not just fight for the rights of aristocratic women, and was not limited to inheritance law, it was a women's suffrage movement that expanded from top to bottom.

In Chuuya, the inheritance rights of noble women were ranked after those of all male heirs, that is, they were only eligible to inherit the title when all legitimate male heirs died or were expelled and deprived of political rights.

Even female knights who have made great achievements on the battlefield will not be granted a hereditary title. At most, they will be granted a single title that cannot be inherited from generation to generation.

Although there had been a parliamentary reform before, whereby married noble women with a certain amount of wealth could enter the Senate, there are very few examples at present. Perhaps Lady Danshu of Mondstadt is one of them, but she is only the agent of the eldest son, exercising the legislative power of the Duke stationed in the border area.

Some widowed noblewomen, although they enjoyed huge wealth, had no titles or political power. They would generally choose to marry a man of higher status to realize their ambitions. However, no matter how obsessed that man was with them, the ultimate dominance was still in the hands of their husbands.

If a better option emerges at this time, they know exactly what to choose.

It takes money to initiate a reform, whether it is staff costs, venue costs, management costs, props costs, the cost of printing and publishing magazines dedicated to the women's suffrage movement... the costs are too numerous to mention.

It is obvious where these expenses come from.

There are also some aristocratic girls of the right age who have received higher education, but have to accept a second-best future. They are arrogant and can't find a way out. They either become high-level workers in society or enter the Graduate school, or become a Rose Knight, and finally choose a well-matched partner to marry. If the successor is worse than them, there is probably no objection, but if you want to watch a successor who is not as good as her lose the family fortune, you will never be willing to do so. The Hughes sisters are one example.

Most of these girls are still studying in college or at home. They are arrogant, young and energetic, radical in thought, courageous and wise, and easily incited.

They are the vanguard of the team, the seeds that ignite the flame. But because most of them have family backgrounds, they are also the first to be extinguished.

Most women in ordinary jobs are probably more inclined to fight for labor benefits, social security and legal rights. The leaders among them must be emerging industrialists, some civilians who have become rich from the bottom, but are not nobles, and are eager to fight for political rights, especially female industrialists. The current situation is that male industrialists at least have a certain opportunity to enter the House of Representatives. And civilian women are generally assumed to have no political rights, even just the right to vote.

It was the time for the parliament to amend the law, and women from all walks of life did not want to miss this opportunity.

They all want to use their own strength to take back their own power.

Inger and Jason walked around for a long time.

He noticed that this time the movement was larger in scale, more orderly, and the pressure was applied more subtly, just at a level that the nobles could not ignore.

In fact, there is no detailed content about this part in the comics, because Alex was opposed to Ola's practice of provoking internal strife and was kicked out.

But at present, he has not been kicked out or ran away on his own, which means that this time he acquiesced to Ola's approach and may even have provided some help.

Perhaps he judged that this would be of progressive significance to the entire country and society.

However, no matter how Inger guessed, he could not understand Alex's thoughts 100%, because he was not the worm in Alex's stomach.

Inger tried again, but was powerless and slipped away outside the palace gate.

The palace's current defense and detection network has been built very well. If he tries to break through it by force, he will definitely be caught and thrown into jail, which will be a shame for his family.

"Alex! Just work hard on your own! I don't care what the result is!"

Inger lay on the bed, closed his eyes in despair, and simply left everything to Alex.

In fact, these are Alex's concerns.

Deep sleep into the middle of the night.

Under the dim and yellow moonlight, a person jumped in through the window.

Inger controlled his breathing; he was very good at pretending to be asleep.

He had already set up a triggering magic circle in this room, so even if he was sleeping soundly, he could be awakened instantly by the magic power.

His wand was pressed against his palm before a hand touched his shoulder.

"Hello! It's me!"